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Today ATI shows off their first enthusiast-based chipset for the AMD K8 series processors. Officially it will be known as the ATI Radeon XPRESS 200 series chipset. Many rumors have been floating around about the RS480 and RX480 chipsets, but from here on out they will be known by their official names — the 200 and 200P.
The 200 series having integrated graphics and the 200P is for discrete graphics solutions. If you were looking forward to seeing AGP slots so you can run discrete graphics on these boards don't hold your breath as these are PCI Express only boards. Now that we know ATI is making motherboard chipsets and that these chipsets are called the 200 and 200P let's take a look and see what ATI has to offer with the ATI XPRESS 200.
From the north bridge you'll notice either an x16 PCIe slot for a discrete graphics solution or a DVO on-board video connector for the XPRESS 200 chipset. The ATI HyperMemory feature, as well as four extra x1 PCI-express lanes, are provided through the north bridge, this will allow mobo vendors to add dedicated video memory to their board for use with the on-board video of the XPRESS 200 chipset.
The south bridge offers the typical array of features, including support for AC97 audio, eight USB 2.0 channels, SATA and PATA, and standard PCI slots. The ATI chipset supports 4 SATA channels and 2 PATA channels for a maximum of eight devices. While RAID 0 and 1 are supported, curiously RAID 0+1 is not. All in all nothing too earth shattering or different, other than the integrated graphics.
The DirextX 9 graphics core has support for Vertex Shader 2.0, Pixel Shader 2.0 as well as having a full precision floating point pixel pipeline. HyperMemory support allows motherboard designers to implement a local frame buffer for the core instead of using shared memory from the system. The HyperMemory support uses an on board 16mb Samsung memory IC for better video performance. ATI says the IGP should offer performance comparable to a four-pipe Radeon X300 card with 64MB of memory. The Radeon XPRESS 200 series chipset supports either dual or single channel memory solutions, this means that both 754-pin and 939-pin processors are supported.
So, now that you know the specifics, lets take a look at the Radeon XPRESS 200 reference board. Then, we can take a look and see how the series stacks up against its competition. Can ATI's newest product find a market in an age of extreme graphics cards and system abusing games, or are IGPs a feature whose time has come and gone? Read on to find out!
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If anything, with parenting my boy, I want to assure myself and my child that I am doing my best. When I eventually look back at his wonderful, chaotic and fun and deeply pleasurable childhood I want to know that I did my best. But it doesn't have to be perfect, to be wonderful does it.
And that is why we have had a LOT of kale cooking in our home over the last three months. We have spent three months being cautious and gentle with my boy following him being unwell. I have come to think of gentler activities to keep his mind and body content and find ways to preoccupy his attention during conversations with doctors and also, I have learned ways to pump his little body with as much goodness through food, to help him along.
Kale, for all its vitamin C, Vitamin A, Vitamin K, iron properties seemed an obvious help but how to get into a 4-year old in decent quantities? I tried kale crisps, which seemed a hit but the initial enthusiasm wavered. We did better with kale khichdi and kale sneaked into pasta sauces although the clear winner has been kale thepla (spiced Gujarati influenced chapatti), for all their green goodness, portability, ease of independent eating for a child and also share-ability, because my child enjoys sharing his food with friends.
They do have a gorgeous colour and have a delicate aroma of the sea. I will be packing them for lunches at the zoo, park, farm and other sunny destinations this summer. The only downside is that to make them, much like parenting, is a little labour of love. They are worth it though, aren't they?
Makes 14 chapattis
60 kale
175ml water
3-4 cloves of garlic, minced
2 cups of chappati flour
2-3 tbsp. vegetable oil
½ tsp. ground turmeric
A pinch of ajwain seeds
A small bowl of oil, for greasing the chappati
- Combine the water and the kale and process them into a kale juice, or at least a very fine texture of kale.
- Take a large, wide bowl (not one that is deep) and put the flour into the bowl. Create a well in the middle and pour in the oil.
- Rub the oil into the flour, so that its evenly blended into a fine crumb.
- Now add the salt, turmeric and ajwain seeds into the flour and ensure even distribution.
- Add the garlic and then the kale 'juice' and then knead the dough.
- Form 14 equally sized balls and then lightly flatten them.
- Heat a non-stick pan and roll the chapatti into thin circles before placing them individually on a pan. Once one side is cooked, drizzle oil onto it and then flip it over.

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2009 of course wasn't only about new releases, I spent plenty of time listening to music released earlier, sometimes much earlier. Of course I also caught up on some releases I missed from the previous year, several of which should have made my list that year. Most egregiously missing was this amazing DVD of John Cage's Variations VII from the 9 Evenings: Theatre & Enginnering program. This disc was released mid 2008 and I had been eagerly awaiting it's release for weeks. I wrote an entry on this as well as the other 9 Evenings release to date Robert Rauschenberg's Open Score in this post. As of this disc coming out, this seminal performance of this Cage piece had never been released and had remained unheard since the performance. The DVD contains a documentary made up of the color and black and white film that they shot (alas not the entire performance) as well as a audio only track of one of the two performances. The music is raucous, filled with the noises of the city from numerous open phones, plus tables filled with Tudor and Cage's electronics as well as contact mic'd everyday objects (such as blenders) triggered by movement, optical sensors and the like. For around eighty minutes layers of sound, cacophonous at times, haunting at others fully occupies the soundworld. It is one of those rare historical moments that is not just significant but is excellent music. The video is fascinating, a chance to see the tables of equipment and Cage and Tudor working them along with other assistants and musicians. The tangles of wires, the Bell Labs engineers striving to keep the lines open and the experimental electronics working and way behind the lights a packed house to see this radical music. The series will eventually contain all of the pieces that were performed at the seminal 9 Evenings with David Tudor's Bandoneon ! up next. This one of very few unavailable Tudor compositions (and an early important one), were I to do a list next year, would be sure to feature on it, if not top it.
I'd been aware of the Neos label for awhile, but it wasn't until the first part of 2009 that I actually picked up a couple of their releases that had been on my "to buy" list for a long time. These were two albums of works by American experimental composers with Munich based Sabine Liebner playing piano. I'd heard a few pieces previously by Liebner and have been long impressed with her touch at the piano. Her recording of John Cage's Music for Piano 1-84 is easily the album I listened to the most this year. I am of course quite familiar with numerous of these pieces from David Tudor's excellent recordings (beautifully collected on the essential Edition RZ release David Tudor: Music for Piano) but there doesn't seem to be a complete recording of the entire set of Music for Piano by Tudor. Additionally Liebner performs these pieces in a dramatically different way then Tudor: many of these pieces allow for the tempo and dynamics to be left to the performer and Liebner choses a soft, spacious, almost Feldman like approach. The notes were worked out with systems utilizing the imperfections in paper and there are various other instructions (especially in the later pieces) that allow for longer silences, overlapping pieces and use of extended techniques and preparations. This makes this album for me one of those perfect ones to listen to in various contexts: intently on my primary stereo, as background while reading or, and this most often, put on as I'd go to sleep. It rewards close attention with its pauses, variety of sounds, controlled randomness and presence, but also can meld with the background allowing one to engage in other tasks or drift off to sleep. One of the things that makes Cage's compositions so wonderful is that they provide and endless amount of variety inside an always recognizably Cagean framework. This recording of these pieces complements the Tudor's versions perfectly and aptly demonstrates the veracity of this statement.
The second of the Sabine Liebner Neos albums I acquired was Christian Wolff Piano Pieces which was originally released May of 2008. I have long loved Wolff's music, especially his piano pieces, but I'd heard few recordings of these beyond a few early pieces recorded by Tudor (again see the Edition RZ David Tudor: Music for Piano), the fantastic John Tilbury recording, Christian Wolff Early piano music 1951-1961 on Matchless and a Mode recording of the Tilbury Pieces. Wolff's music does not lend itself to glib assessments and I've often resisted writing much about it for this very reason. The pieces on this disc are a series of pieces that Wolff had dedicated to John Tilbury and are appropriately enough titled Tilbury 1-III along with Snowdrop and 15 very short pieces under the heading Keyboard Miscellany. Now I was familiar with Tilbury I-III and Snowdrop from the very fine Mode recording of the Tilbury Pieces (complete) (which contains two additional Tilbury pieces, Tilbury IV and V that aren't solo piano and thus not on this recording) and again this performance is a beautiful compliment to that recording. The Tilbury Pieces and Snowdrop are composed using chance techniques but there doesn't seem to be much (if any) indeterminacy of performance beyond that found in performance of all composed music: differences from the instruments, the room, the recording techniques and of course the performer. These are wonderful pieces that seem to capture Tilbury's unrivaled patience and touch at the piano, distilled into gentle yet powerful music. The Keyboard Miscellany are quite interesting with greater diversity of dynamics, tempos and sounds then the Tilbury Pieces. They seem to be little sketches, ideas that Wolff was playing with that he felt were interesting enough to jot down, if not expand into an entire piece. But buried amongst the miscellany is the sublime Variations on Morton Feldman's Piano Piece 1952 a ten minute piece that takes Feldman's composition to place that only Wolff would have. A wonderful little congruence of these two composers and friends of the New York School.
There were of course many more albums I caught up on in 2009 but these three, considering how much plays they got and how much I love them I felt deserved to be highlighted. If they slipped beneath your radar as well, consider it well worth rectifying.


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NEA Resources
- Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gaps
What do schools or districts that close achievement gaps have in common? They employ these strategies from Closing Achievement Gaps: An Association Guide.
- 2011 C.A.R.E. Guide: Strategies for Closing the Achievement Gaps
Research-based ideas for educating culturally diverse students and students from low-income families.
- "I Can Do It!"
This training program from the NEA Academy is designed for new K-12 teachers in their first five years of teaching. Included in the curriculum is information about the elements necessary for successful classroom management.
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Authors Judith W. Segal, Elizabeth J. Demarest, and Andrea I. Prejean describe recent videos portraying teaching practices that are consistent with the most recent research on learning and teaching and with professional standards, and how they are used in professional development.
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Recent research is revealing a great deal about how changes in educational practices and policies can revamp classrooms and schools to close the achievement gaps and promote excellence in learning for all students. This NEA report, by Carolyn M. Evertson and Kristen W. Neal, describes what research says about managing learning-centered classrooms to foster student engagement, autonomy, community and responsibility.
- Characteristics of Teachers Who Are Effective in Teaching All Students to Read (PDF, 580KB, 15pp)
Research from the 1970s and1980s on the characteristics of effective elementary school teachers highlighted the importance of a strong academic focus, explicit instruction,and high levels of pupils on task (Hoffman, 1991). Extending this earlier research, recent largescale studies on effective teachers of reading have highlighted the importance of motivating and balanced instruction, the teaching of strategies as well as skills, the encouragement of higher-level thinking, and the use of coaching as children are reading and writing.
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The question of what makes schools successful in improving students' reading achivement has been a key area of inquiry at the Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA). The process for school-wide reading improvement described in this booklet is based on the framework for change used in the CIERA School Change Project.
Resources from Other Organizations
- Class Matters: In and Out of School (2008) ( PDF) - Closing gaps requires paying attention to race and poverty. Phi Delta Kappa.
- Teaching Teachers: Professional Development to Improve Student Achievement (Summer 2005) (PDF, 4pp)
This issue of AERA's Research Points examines the connection between professional development for teachers and student achievement and remarks that teachers are the foundation of good schools.
- 'Reading Don't Fix No Chevy's': Literacy in the Lives of Young Men (Heinemann Books, 2002)
The problems of boys in schools, especially in reading and writing, have been the focus of statistical data, but rarely does research point out how literacy educators can combat those problems. That situation has changed. Michael Smith and Jeff Wilhelm, two of the most respected names in English education and in the teaching of reading, worked with a very diverse group of young men to understand how they use literacy and what conditions promote it. In this book they share what they have learned.
- Teaching Mathematics and Science to English Language Learners: It's Just Good Teaching
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- The Inclusive Classroom: Mathematics and Science Instruction for Students with Learning Disabilities (PDF, 47pp)
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- IRIS Center - Resources for Working with Students with Disabilities
Research-based, high-quality resources for higher ed faculty and professional development about students with disabilities. Content is also relevant for preK-12 educators who work with students with disabilities. It has free, online, interactive training modules on such topics as Response to Intervention (RTI), Classroom Management, and Differentiated Instruction. A federally funded project housed at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
- Assessing Kindergarten Children: A Compendium of Assessment Instruments (SERVE) (PDF, 82pp)
Schools and state departments of education often need information on assessment instruments and lack a comprehensive resource that provides consistent information on many different instruments. The Compendium is designed to provide a starting point for gathering information on assessment instruments.
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Has anyone else heard about this???
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High School Girls Cutting Themselves
Original post made by LivinginPaloAlto, Midtown, on Jan 31, 2007
Has anyone else heard about this???
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a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 1, 2007 at 2:09 pm
"Has anyone else heard about this???"
Define "this", and you might see more responses.
Is "this",
High school girls cutting themselves in general or
cutting parties or
The Gunn administration refusing to get involved or
something in between?
Since I am over on the Paly side of town, I can't tell you anything about the Gunn specifics, but yes, I am aware that kids cut.
A google search of "Girls Cutting" will get you to some informative sites on the subject and information on the possible causes.
If you are looking for Gunn specifics, someone else will need to respond.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Feb 1, 2007 at 3:40 pm
When my daughter was at Paly, it came out when a group of girls were over that one of her long-time friends had been cutting herself. My daughter and her closest friend came to me and asked what they should do; they didn't want to betray the confidence of their friend, but they knew she was unhappy and in trouble. I called the other mother and we both decided to contact the mother of the girl. We knew she needed to know (granted these girls knew each other since Kindergarten) and trusted that we were doing the right thing. I spoke to her about the fears our girls had with her daughters cutting and referred her to Adolescent Counseling Services. She thanked me and later told me that the referral turned the situation around. I know this particular situation doesn't deal with the school administration component (or lack thereof), but cutting is a real issue.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Feb 1, 2007 at 3:42 pm
It has come to our attention that anonymous individuals have been posting statements on this blog site accusing Gunn High School staff of being unresponsive to reports that students have been cutting themselves. We wish to state publicly and unequivocally that on every occasion that it has come to our attention that a student has been hurting him/herself school personnel has taken immediate action. Claims that we have not done so are false and malicious. If anyone has questions or would like to discuss this issue with us in person we are more than happy to do so.
Noreen Likins Principal
Kim Cowell Assistant Principal
Tom Jacoubowsky Assistant Principal
Phil Winston Dean of Students
George Green School Psychologist
Kim Diorio Gunn Counselor
Paige Johnson Gunn Counselor
Jovi Johnston Gunn Counselor
Pat Conway Gunn Counselor
Linda Kirsch Gunn Counselor
Myesha Compton Gunn Counselor
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 1, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Just one individual did, all other posters just confirmed that kids are known to hurt themselves in this manner. I should have thought to suggested "LivinginPaloAlto" call and check her information with Gunn. For that lapse, I apologize.
thanks for the clarifying response.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Feb 1, 2007 at 9:03 pm
Ok the Story got twisted around! Nothing was really done right away until i told the school phycologist. But a day later i got my friend to show the ACS Counseler how bad it was. It was the ACS Counseler Who KNEW ABOUT this for over a month and didn't check her or nothing.She didn't tell the parents or concact staff like she is supose to do. I will admit that the staff was also slow to responding to this and the other kids as well. I still think Gunn Needs to take more action into this. Oh and all the kids who i helped are all now better. THANK GOD!
BTW I am the kid who is mentioned in the first post!
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 1, 2007 at 10:18 pm
The Kid Who Told the Staff,
If you have not talked to the principal, you should consider it. If there is an adult at your school that does not know the proceedure for this type of situation, Noreen can fix it, but only if she knows about it.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Feb 2, 2007 at 7:24 am
I did! i told the whole entire staff even some teachers! I told them all about 5 days before i had to personaly make sure my friend was put in a hospital. The ACS counseler knew about her for a few months and said she didn't know it was that bad and stuff. She was checking or doing anything! I think Gunn needs to take more action and respond quicker.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Feb 2, 2007 at 8:15 am
ACS is on campus to assist with helping kids with topics like this.
There are new privacy laws fedaral HIPPA regulations that keep conversation very tightly contained as to who may say what to whom and you don't mess with HIPPA laws.
Never in my years at this institution have I seen us rest on our laurels and do nothing when a kid is having problems. What is being passed about may be a distortion of how an issue like gets handled.
a resident of Charleston Meadows
on Feb 2, 2007 at 9:34 am
Wow! Sounds like this is a case of the tail wagging the dog. Before we let our teens (the most intelligently manipulative group in history) push our "knee jerk" button, why don't we all just take a deep breath, relax, and get some facts first. Does anyone else find it absurd that some parents seem eager to find school staff negligent when their own child is cutting themselves and they haven't a clue about it? I think the real problem is at home. Kids do these things not to end their lives but to get attention. Fix your child by fixing your family life people.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Feb 2, 2007 at 10:36 am
By law the counseler is suppose to tell the adminastrative staff and contact the parents.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Feb 2, 2007 at 11:18 am
kid who told,
Talk to Noreen.
a resident of another community
on Feb 2, 2007 at 2:40 pm
ACS (Adolescent Counseling Services) is a non profit agency which places therapists on secondary school campuses in Palo Alto as well as Menlo Atherton High School. Each campus has a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) or Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) on site who works with the students as well as supervises clinical interns who work with students. While we are not employed by the school, we do work closely with the guidance department and administration of each campus.
As LMFT's and LCSW's, we are required to uphold the legal and ethical requirements of the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. One of these requirements is to maintain confidentiality within the therapeutic session. While exceptions exist, they are specific and limited to the following:
Child abuse and Neglect
Elder Abuse
Threat of serious physical violence toward identifiable victim
We also have the responsibility to maintain safety, but this specific to ensuring that individuals are not at risk of suicide.
While cutting may appear similar to suicide, they are two very different issues. Each individual we see who presents with self harm (cutting) is given a thorough suicidal assessment. When found to be at risk of suicide additional steps, up to and including hospitalization, are taken to ensure safety of that individual.
Cutting is an issue that ACS, PAUSD and the community are more and more aware of and concerned about. For therapists, it is a clinical issue that we take very seriously and work very closely with the individual. We feel very strongly that individuals who harm themselves be treated by a trained therapist.
Laurie Linscheid, MFT, ACS On Campus Counseling Program Director
Roni Gillenson, MFT, ACS Site Director, Gunn High School
Philippe Reay, PsyD, ACS Executive Director
a resident of another community
on Feb 2, 2007 at 5:06 pm
As someone who cut herself 20 years ago, I want to say don't jump to conclusions about the quality of the counselors based on the perceived response by the wonderful friend who tried to get his friends help.
By the way, your friends are lucky to have you! They should get on their knees and thank you daily.
Anyway, cutters do this for a lot of reasons. By the very nature of the anger/depression/but hide how bad I feel from everyone except myself that drives the cutting, combined with the absolutely strict laws and ethics that governs when someone can be forced to accept help, we can't assume that this story is what it seems.
I am not calling anyone a liar! Really! I am just saying that it is wonderful that this friend was so proactive, but that things may not be what they seem in the response.
By the way - with counseling and medicine and self-examination etc..it stops. And you can be better than ever.
a resident of another community
on Feb 2, 2007 at 5:07 pm
sorry, I meant to say "hide from everyone INCLUDING YOURSELF how bad you feel" not except yourself.
a resident of Community Center
on Feb 2, 2007 at 7:00 pm
This has been an interesting set of postings. I'm a parent, but not a Gunn parent. I'm only offering my comments on the nature of the postings and my suggestion that all of the parties might benefit from being more thoughtful and cautious in the future.
It appears that the original posting did not have the full and accurate story despite being motivated to protect the kids. It's an important lesson to all of us to try to have our facts straight before speaking out in public. School staff are in their careers because they care about our children and they generally do an excellent job at it. However, I was surprised to read Noreen's accusation that the posting was made maliciously. Being partly or wholely in error may result from being capricious, but it's not necessarily malicious. I do appreciate that the staff members would have felt hurt by the accusation, but I would hope that a principal would be more judicious in her assertions despite the temptation to respond in kind.
Also, it may be accurate that the staff has a policy of responding promptly to any such occurance, but I don't know how Noreen could know with such certainty that those actions were always taken in the way that she presumes.
a resident of Evergreen Park
on Feb 3, 2007 at 10:14 am
What a serious issue!!!
I don't think that we should focus attention on what the school has done or not, but, instead, we need to help our teenagers who are doing this. First I learned that kids were arriving already drunk in school parties and places, not I am learning that they do cut themselves! I am a mother of two, and I am amazed to hear those stories. We really need to find a way to focus our attention to our children.
Why is this happening? Maybe those children need to be involved in social and arts projects or other good things that may help them have a more fulfilling life, so they don't have to do those things.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Feb 3, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Cutting is not caused by parental neglect or lack of involvement in social or arts projects that might make for a fulflling life. Cutting is a mental health issue, a kind of cry of pain. Cutters "alleviate" their pain by putting themselves in charge of inflicting physical as an escape from the mental/emotional pain they cannot control on their own.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Feb 6, 2007 at 11:01 am
thank you ex cutter
a resident of South of Midtown
on Feb 6, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Yes, cutting is the area's dirty little secret, and these young people are crying for help and attention.
They may be on drugs, most likely meth - or even cocaine. Call any of the residential treatment centers around here, and they will tell you that they are dealing with cutting along with use of alcohol and drugs.
a resident of Barron Park
on Feb 8, 2007 at 11:56 am
I think the student who pressed the urgency of this matter to help his/her friends did a good job.
To the student, who is still a high school kid, this is an urgent matter that must have stressed him/her a great deal.
The school might be planing to do something, but had not communicated their procedure or plan to this student clearly. In this situation, even an adult can get a wrong impression.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Feb 13, 2007 at 8:23 pm
KC - Cutting is not associated with being on drugs like crack or meth. You are flat out wrong.
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on Oct 6, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Outrageous. I have no doubt that the gunn administration failed to act. More concerned with busting teenagers for riding skateboards and smoking marijuana, they are completely oblivious to the acutally important problems they need to be addressing.
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"I want to volunteer more and do more good," she said. "As a journalist you write about people doing amazing things. Rather than write about it, I want to start to do it as well."
As much as she enjoys journalism's platform which allowed her to listen to and share the stories of people, she now has her sights set on spending more quality time on things she's passionate about. She wants to lend her time helping seniors, animals and veterans.
It's safe to say that Tsang, 22, is exploring her options and figuring out what will ultimately fulfill her. She started as a business major at Baruch College, but then switched to journalism. Now her course is changing again and it's something she feels she's ready for.
Throwing caution to the wind as she puts down the pen and pad, her first plan is to walk to the senior center near her home in Flushing and volunteer her time.
"To be a great journalist, your heart has to be in it … I want to make a more direct impact," she said. "There's a shortage of people who want to give their time freely and it's necessary."
Within the next few years, Tsang sees herself starting a nonprofit or even teaching elementary education. She would also like to travel but for now she will remain in Queens.
"I've lived here all my life but I didn't really know the borough. You don't know Queens until you start covering it. I've met amazing people and I've been inspired by those people."


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About mid-morning on Thanksgiving Day, my toddler son hopped across the kitchen with glee. No, he hadn't found a stash of candy. We had company. And he loves visitors.
About mid-morning on Thanksgiving Day, my toddler son hopped across the kitchen with glee. No, he hadn't found a stash of candy. We had company. And he loves visitors. The arrival of the pizza guy will send him rocketing to the front door. My wife and I hadn't told Jay my sister's family was coming to spend the night Wednesday because they weren't sure when they would arrive or how long they would stay. We decided that rather than kick our 2-year-old into high gear prematurely, we'd put a cap on this explosive information. When Ann, her husband and their four kids began filing through the back door, Jay couldn't contain himself. He shrieked! And then he zipped over and stood behind my leg and observed the lot of them. My son is hesitant, at first, with things new or unknown. He ate his first cupcake like he was dismantling a bomb. And he's so excited when people visit that his carefulness and exuberance collide. Generally, he squeals at the sight of visitors and then flees from them. He's so ecstatic that he has to run off some steam. Eventually, he files back into the room and approaches the newcomers, watching their every move. And then, of course, he warms up to them and wants them to stay until he graduates high school. My big sister, Carrie, is a bit like crack cocaine for my son. Around her, he spins like a top and becomes irritable when the gyration ends. A couple weeks ago, she came up to watch Jay and his little brother Finn (7 months old) for the afternoon. The night before Carrie arrived, I told Jay she was coming. He didn't want to wait. "Carrie is outside," he told me. "No. She won't be here until tomorrow." "Today is tomorrow," he said as if declaring it would make it so. And he's the same with his grandpa and grandma. He anticipates their arrival and wants their attention the whole time they are here. Sometimes his little brother gets too much attention and Jay has to intervene. I don't think Jay's reaction to company is unusual. I can remember, as a child, the excitement of a visit from my aunt Mary, my mom's half-sister. Younger than mom, Mary seemed hip and we had fun. We'd sing songs, play games and talk about music. She brought the first eight-track player I ever laid eyes on. Her visits to the farm were like a slice of flavor in the middle of a fast. But as children grow, some of the polish comes off having company. I guess we start treasuring privacy and developing an aversion to disruptions. During my grade school years, I remember my uncles and cousins from my dad's side of the family visiting during Thanksgiving or Christmas. I didn't mind seeing them, but they were big, boisterous people and seemed to invade the house. I remember waking up and trudging downstairs to find a house full of big relatives, dressed for the day with little to do but stare at me and make cracks about how I was just now getting up. They'd been up for hours, which somehow put them at an advantage. It was pretty tough to slurp down a bowl of Sugar Pops with a dozen people watching. And these days I enjoy most company, but I seldom shriek and hop across the kitchen. My joy is muted partly because a visit from anyone means a quick clean of the house, which always deadens the excitement for me. Enthusiasm is not difficult to bridle when you're brushing the toilet. Unless, of course, you're Martha Stewart. Then not only is your toilet smelling like pumpkin spice, but you're sewing some monogram napkins and building a life-sized tribute to your guests in the back yard. But, for most us, just getting the dirty socks from the floor to the closet is accomplishment enough. Plus, we adults have schedules. Having company knocks us off our tracks. And, there's a responsibility to entertain. Eats, drinks, conversation. It's easier not to have company. But as my sister's family departed on Thanksgiving Day, I realized we'd made some more holiday memories, the kind a little kid never forgets. Tom Martin is editor of The Register-Mail. Contact him at email@example.com or call 343-7181 Ext. 250.


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The task force, composed of eight undergraduates, three faculty members, five staff members and two alumni who chair the graduate boards of eating clubs, released the initial report in May. It focused on relationships between the University and the clubs following a yearlong examination of "whether there are steps that can and should be taken to strengthen those relationships for the mutual benefit of the clubs and the University, and for the benefit of Princeton students and the undergraduate experience."
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text: Don't Give Bile a Permalink - Finding Balance within The No Asshole Rule April 29, '09 Comments [84] Posted in Musings Sponsored By I asked on Twitter today if it was "OK to be a dick as long as you were introspective about it?" I received a few responses, including one asking if I'd be more gender-neutral and pick a word like asshole instead. You can't please everyone. Forgive my language in this instance. There's a lot of discussion on the Interweb right now about an individual in a technical community who used some imagery in a technical presentation at a technical conference that could be described as gender-insensitive. That's a Politically Correct way to say it. Another way to say it is that a guy used a porn metaphor and soft-core porn imagery in a technical presentation in front of a gender-mixed technical crowd. Boiled down, the issue ultimately was not just about the images as it relates to gender, but rather that the images and the presentation metaphor was simply in poor taste. Certainly, taste in this context is subjective, but it's easier than you think to find the limits of good taste. Dana Jones had this very erudite comment on a Rails mailing list: Imagine a presentation about recruiting developers for your firm with the analogous presentation: "Big Game Hunting", replete with pictures of dead animals smilingly displayed by the hunters who killed them. Hunting is a perfectly legal sport and one which I personally have no objections to (just as I have no objections to porn), but do graphic images that will likely disturb at least *some* audience members really have a place? What about a presentation about writing code on deadline: "Delivering Like a Birth Mom." Or how about graphic images of up-close breastfeeding in a talk titled "Nursing Your Projects Along." These parallel theoretical presentations of Dana's brilliantly provide the boundaries of good taste vs. poor taste in this context. "I know it when I see it" is a truism. But with all subjective opinion, one man's norm is another's outlier. That technical community is discussing the issue and working it out. One of the related posts by DHH, the creator of Ruby on Rails - but not the presenter in question - had an interesting post called "I'm an R-rated individual." It's basically a disclaimer/declaration that he's loud and proud and may offend. Some folks believe Rails.equal?(DHH) but that's of course, short-sighted. This paragraph of David's post is excellent: Blending like this isn't free. You're bound to upset, offend, or annoy people when you're not adding heavy layers of social sugarcoating. I choose to accept that trade because my personal upside from congruence is that I find more energy, more satisfaction, and more creativity when the bulls**t is stripped away. A lot of people are talking about personal brand and "image management" right now, and it's easy to say, "oh, so-and-so is a jerk." and write them off. The reason that paragraph is so insightful is because DHH expresses two things. One, he consciously chooses his path. +1 Wisdom there. And Two, he realizes there are consequences...it "isn't free." +2 Introspection. Like a guy/gal or not, but give them credit for deciding to be someone. Feel bad if someone is a jerk and doesn't realize it. I thinking living consciously and unapologetically is to be commended. DHH's path is not for everyone. It's not for me. I believe one should avoid being overtly offensive whenever possible and appropriate, public or private. I expend a some amount of effort being a consensus builder (perhaps because I'm an ENFJ and DHH is, I'm guessing, likely an ENTP) and I think one can be real without being rude. I encourage others to do the same. However, it depends on what you feel strongly about and if what you feel strongly about outweighs what you believe others might feel. You need to be yourself, but you there ARE social norms, and others feelings, that should be considered. @mstum on Twitter said: I'd rather have honest f-bombs than gentlemen hypocrites... Honest and direct people are so much easier to work with. But can't one be an honest gentleman? Why is online (or offline) use of the F-word and general crassness somehow exemplary of "honesty?" If someone swears and slams their hand on a table in a business meeting I don't immediately think "Whew, finally an honest person!" Being generally pleasant and helpful isn't sugarcoating, it's being pleasant and helpful. @David_Ing said: Different worlds I guess. Reminds me of high school. Makes me feel old. Edgy douche is the new cool. So where does it stop? I had this conversation with Ade Miller on Twitter: AdeMiller: @shanselman Would it be better to lie to conform to a set of social norms you don't believe in? http://is.gd/vcEZ · View Tweet shanselman: @AdeMiller if he was a nudist, should he show up to conferences and user groups nude? Post pics on his blog? · View Tweet AdeMiller: @shanselman That's reductio ad absurdum. A more interesting question is should he never admit to being a nudist so avoid upsetting plp? · View Tweet shanselman: @AdeMiller If he wants to sell software to the enterprise and lead a movement, yes. · View Tweet This may be a generation gap. I'm in my mid-30s and "social internet culture" for me doesn't automatically involve ending online arguments via reductio ad Hitlerum (Godwin's Law). Young people today (get off my lawn!) are largely more comfortable being unapologetically themselves online. I'm of a slightly older Internet generation that doesn't believe everyone is a unique snowflake and that if everyone behaves with a "this is me, like me or leave me alone" attitude then anarchy (ahem, or the internet) will emerge. People believe strongly about some things and less strongly about others, and you'll never get everyone to agree. I certainly don't promote being a push-over. If something is an injustice, then, by all means speak up. There are some folks in the .NET community that people consider abrasive or have written off as jerks. But see it from their perspective! For them, there is a great injustice, or a number of them, and social norms be damned! I deeply respect this perspective. For example, my wife is Black. If I post pictures of my wife on my blog, I risk alienating racists and folks against interracial marriage. However, that's a risk (hopefully small) that I'm willing to take, as I certainly feel strongly about it and I think I'm on the right side of history. I'm also a diabetic and I don't hide it. These are stands, small or large, that I'll take, as they are important to me. You might knee-jerk and think that's a trite example. You might say "we're all too Politically Correct." This might be a true, but just because you want to avoid being Politically Correct doesn't mean you should email me and say, "Hey, how's your Black Wife? How's Diabetes sucking for you? Still blind?" A question on code comments showed up on StackOverflow this week, and the most highly-voted answer included the F-word. An "Edit War" ensued, with members of the community switching a code sample back and forth between the actual F-word, and various other forms like F*ck, Frick, and Foolish. I swear occasionally. I can appreciate the F-word as appropriate punctuation while simultaneously realizing its crassness. I don't typically swear in meetings. It's conceivable I would if I could find the right situation. Most everyone who speaks English realizes that the N-word is off limits. Americans also have other words that we Just Don't Use, although the British do. Using them in a meeting is certain death. The point is that NOT using these words doesn't fundamentally make my life worse. DHH says: "I find more energy, more satisfaction, and more creativity when the bulls**t is stripped away." I respect that, and good for folks who agree. I respect everyone's right to say what they like. If you're a nudist and you give your technical talks on C# naked, I likely won't be there to watch your talk. You may feel REALLY strongly about nudism, and I wish you well. You may believe in the legalization of drugs and prefer to give your technical presentations high, and I say, kudos, but I and others may not show. There are some social norms, and you should know what they are and know how strongly you feel about them when you take your message to a larger audience. Know that there are consequences when what you value is broadcast in a larger context while promoting a technology. I've lost readers who have said I don't do enough deep technical content, or they find my "intensely personal" posts off-putting, but I'm conscious of my decisions and I feel strongly about the things I choose to discuss on my blog. I respect DHH's perspective and others like him. Some are concerned that some edgy attitudes are preventing female programmers from embracing programming as a vocation. DHH says: "You certainly have to be mindful when you're working near the edge of social conventions, but that doesn't for a second lead me to the conclusion that we should step away from all the edges. Finding exactly where the line goes — and then enjoying the performance from being right on it — requires a few steps over it here and there." Again, another paragraph with layers. He knows where the edge is, enjoys dancing on the precipice jumping back. To dismiss him as merely loud and obnoxious is to do him (and people like him) a disservice. I have set a level of what I consider reasonable professional conduct both online and offline. You should too. Know what THE edge is, know what YOUR edge is and know the effects of being near both. Decide what you feel strongly about and what you don't. Not everyone has the same norms, but everyone should know what the consequences are and measure them according to their own value system. The advice that works for me is to avoid giving bile a permalink. Don't be a dick. If you are a dick, you don't get to complain when things go bad for you. There are consequences to all actions and they live on. They live on longer if you give them a permalink. 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Sunday, February 14, 2010
God Has Made Progress with Us!
The Scofield Bible, which has greatly influenced conservative American Protestants, defines a dispensation in the subhead to Genesis 1:28: "A dispensation is a period of time during which man is tested in respect to obedience to some specific revelation of the will of God." Scofield is not speaking here of the testing of individuals such as Cain, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. He is speaking of the general failure of mankind to love and serve God. Each of his seven dispensations ends with God's punishing evildoers. This gives the false impression that God has made no progress with humanity, and misses the obvious contrast between the beginning and the end of Genesis.
On this Sunday of Forgiveness, let us turn all our desires to God who alone is able to purify us and turn our souls from resentment to forgiveness.
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What a wonderful point about a much neglected passage! Joseph is so very Christological and it never occurred to me until recently to see the prefiguring.
I've come back to reading your blog after sometime absent. A good post to put my mind on Lent. Thank you.
- February 15, 2010 at 6:11 PM
- Ross said...
Are you familiar with Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen's book The Drama of Scripture? When I read it, it opened my eyes to the way that the entire canon of Scripture narrates God's unfolding plan of redemption of His creation.
- February 15, 2010 at 11:24 PM
- Alice C. Linsley said...
Thanks, Ross. The book sounds ineresting. I will read it.
The entire canon of Scripture points to Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father before time, incarnate by the Holy Spirit and born of the Woman.
- February 16, 2010 at 5:06 AM
Ms. Linsley,
I know a few Dispensationalists. On a deckplate level, their theology creates a kind of finger-wagging Creator who can't wait to consign his creation to periodic perdition; and that's to not to mention other challenges;soteriology, eschatology, etc. Some evangelicals I know are great rule-keepers, but in my experience lack a Merciful G-d. Thanks for your thoughts. Best and blessings, Brent
- February 17, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- Alice C. Linsley said...
The central problem with Dispensationalism is that it divides the one Salvific Action of God thorugh the Pleromic Blood of Jesus into different acts. It is, therefore, diametrically opposite to the message of the entire canon.
I'll insert a chart in the post so that you can see the 7 dispensations.
- February 17, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Sandra McColl said...
Oh, the bliss of ignorance. It wasn't until I found the internet that I knew of such things.
- February 17, 2010 at 2:00 PM
Ms. Linsley, yes. Thanks for the amplifying info. Respectfully, Brent
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Focus Pocus, Drink More Mochas
Normally, part of my Saturday morning routine is a Target run to pick up all the requisite supplies - and I actually sort of enjoy this part of my weekend. Being an insomniac, I'm usually up between 4-5:00am - so I'm insanely grateful that Target opens its doors at 8:00am because, by that time, I am bouncing off the walls for something to do. Tony is usually still asleep, despite all the non-ambient noise I've attempted - and, by this time, I've had enough of his show-boating his sleeping mojo. So, my little excursions are a bit of a haven. Except...recently...
I was exiting after acquiring the needed provisions and I looked toward my car - to pre-strategize whether the provisions should go in the cargo area or side door. I noticed a woman putting her stuff away in her cargo area - she finished, then proceeded to very intentionally place her shopping cart - now that she was done with it - directly behind my car, as in - directly! Now, at first, I made sure I was awake - and indeed I was. Next, I quickly glanced around to look for hidden cameras or whatever - maybe that show "Boiling Point" was about to nail me big time. Nope.
Keep in mind, the cart keeper (place where you put your cart once you're finished) is literally 10 feet away. SO, as I'm now within speaking distance, I say "Um, are you planning on leaving that cart behind my car?" as I'm now laughing a bit - from sheer disbelief. And she looks at me with disdain, looks at the cart, and says "Yes, I am". So, I put my stuff away, put my cart away, and wait for her to get in her Mercedes, and start her car. Then I go to move HER cart. GUESS WHERE I MOVED IT?
Well, needless to say, that little ninnyhammer really chapped my ass - and sometimes, I let incidences like that ruin my whole day - because then I begin to lose faith in the entire human race BECAUSE OF A SHOPPING CART, PEOPLE. My entire focus can move from satisfying-provisional-shopping-experience to catastrophic-suspicion-of-permanent-loss-of-any-trace-of-humanity, all due to a shift of cart. Little did I know a cart was such an equalizer.
So, what did I do? Well, I fought fire with fire, of course - I found a worthy equalizer. I went immediately to the nearest Starbucks and ordered a Mocha, heavy chocolate. The chocolate changed my focus on contact and no one cut in line, it was like I was at Saintbucks. Ahhhhh. All was right in my world again.
Plus, I could grab a whole bunch of FREE sugar packets on my way out - which I could then pour into a certain gas tank. Oh, the humanity!
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Oh, I completely know these feelings! What is wrong with people these days??
You did the right thing.
I popped over to drool over those brownies again but also to tell you to vote for the Cutest Pet Contest (Marcel) and have all your best buds vote, too.
- May 13, 2008 at 10:34 PM
- hungryandfrozen said...
Ohhh it's so easy to let one thing ruin your day. I'm not saying this in a finger-wagging way but in comiseration - I do it all the time. The lady sounds like a right bitch. Oh and I always steal the sugar packets from Starbucks, on principle. My partner works there so if you're ever in Wellington, NZ, there is a free Mocha with your name on it ;)
- May 13, 2008 at 10:57 PM
- NV said...
That is ONE of my pet peeves: Able-bodied people who can't make their a**es return carts.
What a rude cow! You handled it perfectly. :-)
- May 14, 2008 at 6:07 AM
- Ann said...
Lacy - I'm comin' over to your blog after I wipe your drool off of the brownies over here! :)
Laura - LOL, would love to see in NZ for a mocha and some free sugar!
NV - sigh...I know! Man my blood was a-boilin'!
- May 14, 2008 at 11:27 AM
Once again, I'm rolling on the floor. Thanks for cheering up my day.
- May 14, 2008 at 11:54 AM
OMG. I run into people like this all the time these days and they do ruin my days at times. Rude. I can't imagine every doing that. Somehow, you made it funny though. Gotta love the mocha.
- May 14, 2008 at 11:58 AM
When you wonder what is up with bad attitude kids in the schools you only have to look as far as their parents! Sorry that you had to deal with one of the many jerks out there.
btw, I posted a pic of the brownies and linked to you. Hope you get some of my awesome readers coming your way!
- May 14, 2008 at 1:14 PM
- Ann said...
Kelsey - You're very welcome. :)
Sonja - I'm convinced mocha may be prozac in disguise.
Kspin - wow, you are so right. Forgot to mention - she had a SON in the car - nice example huh?
- May 14, 2008 at 1:29 PM
She has spawned??? Oh gawd no. Why??
- May 14, 2008 at 2:28 PM
- Ann said...
Lacy - EXACTLY! Can you believe she did that in front of a child? It's like "here child, let me teach you complete selfishness..."
- May 14, 2008 at 3:11 PM
- Marie Louise said...
All I can say is, PEOPLE ARE NUTS!
Don't try to figure them out - it'll make you nuts.
- May 14, 2008 at 10:12 PM
LOL, well I know you didn't really put sugar in the tank, but I really love thinking that you did. Like the other commenter said, a NUT.
- May 15, 2008 at 5:25 AM
If it were me, I think I might have parked my CAR behind her car for awhile, then phoned someone on my cell and waited until the woman asked "are you going to sit there and talk on the phone?" and I would have said "Yes, I am".
- May 15, 2008 at 6:19 AM
Non-ambient noise, poor hubby, lol! I love that photo, did you take that or is it a stock photo? It looks so early morning-light.
- May 15, 2008 at 7:18 AM
mmmm..does that look good or what? i really want a good cuppa now. probably will run to starbucks tomorrow haha.
- May 15, 2008 at 12:44 PM
- Ann said...
RS - Okay, you're right, but it was fun thinkin' 'bout it...
The Mick - You clearly have a genius IQ and should have been with me at the time. :)
Anon - I did take that photo - yesterday at 5:00am in the morning! Which is why it looks so sleepy...
Diva - Wish I could join you. :)
- May 15, 2008 at 1:04 PM
Hi Ann... this is Claudia from ransomsoul.com - you've been e-mailing back and forth with my hubby Jason... but I needed to tell you: you've got something here... saliva-inducing pics & suuuuper-funny stories.... love it!!! We put your link on our blog as one of our favs and I've been telling my friends to check you out!!! Just one request: next baking session just put a couple of pieces of the scrumptiousness in an envelope and FedEx to us!!! With four kids I am more of a microwaver than a baker and poor Jason has to hit Marie Callenders to get a piece of pie!!! YUCK!!!
Here's wishing you don't break anything else today... take care, firstname.lastname@example.com
- May 15, 2008 at 7:16 PM
- Ann said...
Claudia - LOL, I wish I could bring you a dessert right now! Your hubby was so gracious in helping me track down a designer, very kind indeed. I bet that pie was de-lish nonetheless - but I sure would bring you a big plate o' brownies if I could! :)
- May 15, 2008 at 7:26 PM
Flat out - the best brownies ever but still doesn't beat the Lava Cakes or Red Velet!
She probably wouldn't do the sugar trick but has been spotted while armed with a banana in the local parking lot lately..
Unfortunately, the non-ambient noise does work...arghh..I simply keep my eyes closed and count the ways in which I will keep her up at nite! But even the counting doesn't help me get back to sleep.
-The tired hubby
- May 15, 2008 at 8:15 PM
- Tootsie Farklepants said...
"ninnyhammer"...awesome! And that lady? WOW. I cannot even imagine being that much of a bitch.
- May 15, 2008 at 8:40 PM
- Ann said...
Anon HUBBY - Get your own blog, dude! OMG, total spam by the hub! Clearly, gotta get my household under control over here! Appalling.
- May 15, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Had a comment in mind, then got in here and saw the hubby had invaded and was laughing so hard, that I forgot everything I wanted to say. Thanks for the laugh. And TAKE BACK the pants!
- May 16, 2008 at 8:46 AM
- Ann said...
Tootsie - You farkle, you. And, I know, can you believe her?
Melissa - lol, going to have to totally suspend his computer access or figure out how to ban him altogether. Taking back the pants!!
- May 16, 2008 at 12:20 PM
- Hannah said...
I just gotta say... my BIGGEST pet peeve is when people don't put their carts in the corral. Seriously, wtf?
- May 19, 2008 at 7:47 AM
- Ann said...
Hannah - totally agree, then to leave it behind my car so I can't back up? Oh my. Priceless.
- May 19, 2008 at 8:09 AM
I believe I might have strategically placed a key within a certain closeness of the finish of someone's Mercedes, and then as she backed away and heard the scraping noise, waved my hand all princess style and say, "Have a lovely day!"
- May 28, 2008 at 8:11 PM
- Jenn @ Juggling Life said...
Oh no she did not!
I don't know if I can come back again--I may short out my keyboard by drooling on it.
- June 1, 2008 at 9:34 AM
Just noticed this post, and though it's late, I had to tag on. I live in the (way out) burbs of Denver, and one afternoon at our neighborhood grocery I saw a lady cross the parking lot with her cart to her SUV parked in the first handicapped spot, unload her bags, and then with a hearty shove she sent her cart flying across the lane to another row of parked cars. She then jumped into her vehicle and raced off. I took the opportunity to point a few things out to my kids. It's a peeve of mine I admit, but I ALWAYS put my cart away. I think we Americans are lazy and overweight enough already, and I don't think it takes herculean effort to put a cart into a cart return. But the gal that day certainly took it one step further (or maybe two, if you count the illegal parking). Do you ever have a self-indulgent moment where you picture someone, like the one you got to interact with, being swallowed up by the very cart they were mistreating? Or am I just mentally ill?
- June 13, 2008 at 8:34 PM
- Ann said...
Oh Lori - I'm surprised you didn't tackle that woman on the SPOT. Just wow. And if you're mentally ill - then me TOO.
- June 13, 2008 at 8:43 PM


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Boomers' retirement confidence continues to slip, the Insured Retirement Institute said in a report released Monday. Just 37% of boomers surveyed said they were confident in their retirement preparation, down from 44% in 2011, according to the third annual "Boomer Expectations for Retirement" report.
What's especially troubling is that 61% don't anticipate their financial situation improving anytime soon.
The survey found a significant gap in confidence between retired respondents and those who were still working. Among retired boomers, 46% said they were confident in their ability to live comfortably throughout their retirement, while less than a third of working boomers agreed.
"Boomers continue to face financial struggles in an era when they have the bulk of responsibility for planning and saving for retirement," Cathy Weatherford, IRI President and CEO, said in a statement. "This has resulted in a generation that lacks confidence in their financial futures as they approach their retirement years."
There is good news, though, Weatherford noted. "Boomers who work with a financial professional are much more confident in their retirement plans. They also are more likely to have determined a retirement savings goal, more likely to have retirement savings, and more engaged with their retirement plans. Developing a holistic retirement strategy, saving and remaining engaged with your plan—these are the fundamental steps toward attaining financial security during one's retirement years."
In fact, while barely more than a quarter of respondents said they were very or extremely confident in their retirement planning, when looking just at respondents who work with an advisor, that number increases to 48%.
The report found a significant gap between boomers who work with advisors and have determined a retirement savings goal, and those who don't work with advisors. While 71% of boomers with an advisor have a goal—and nearly all of them have savings—just 34% of boomers without an advisor have determined a savings goal and less than two-thirds have started saving.
Although fewer boomers are unsure about when they will retire, overall they seem to be planning on retiring only partially or delaying retirement altogether. More than one in five boomers said they would postpone their retirement and 18% said they planned to work past age 70. Nearly 80% of respondents who are still working said they expected working in retirement would be one source of income, up 12 percentage points from 2011. However, just 45% of retirees said they weare still working.
"Expectations of sources of income do not always match up with actual experience," the report said. "It is important when planning for retirement that boomers have realistic expectations about sources of income in retirement."
For example, 46% of respondents said Social Security would be a minor source of income in retirement. However, "IRI data shows 22% of boomers have no savings for retirement, and of those boomers who have savings for retirement, 41% have less than $100,000 saved. This data indicates Social Security will be a significant source of income for many boomers."
One reason for boomers' falling confidence may be that they're overstretched. Almost 70% of respondents said they didn't think they'd be able to pay for their kids' college education, and fully three-quarters doubt their ability to help their parents with long-term care expenses.
"Retirement is not an age, but an ongoing stage of life," the report concluded. "Boomers are still facing financial challenges and trying to balance competing needs for their financial resources. Despite these challenges, it is possible for boomers to achieve their retirement goals. Working with an advisor is a major factor in achieving those goals."
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Early this week, the latest in a long line of Apple iPhone 5 rumors appeared online. This time around, it's pictures of a Chinese iPhone 5 clone — not an authentic Apple design, reports Giz-China, which first published photos and video of the device. Now, I haven't a clue whether this handset at all resembles what Apple plans to release. I can, however, guarantee one thing: If this is what the next iPhone looks like, I'm not buying one.
There is absolutely nothing spectacular about this phone, not a single design feature that distinguishes it from the bulging, monotonous hoard of Android devices now available, save the Apple logo on the back. It is not the future of smartphone design, as all Apple's previous iPhone iterations have been. It is not even the present — I've seen a variety of mock-up designs that are vastly better. Even the current iPhone 4 is more aesthetically pleasing. The nicest thing I can say is that this forgery looks to me like a near-duplicate of the original iPhone, the dinosaur that arrived back in 2007 and has long since gone extinct.
Sure, this version might have a slightly thinner profile, lighter build and more curves than the iPhone 4 — but it's nothing to lust over. It doesn't have me salivating, or calculating how much I'll have to save up each week to afford it when the phone finally hits shelves. The bezels on the top and bottom of the phone's face are too large; the screen, too small. And the side buttons look like that of the iPhone 3G, only less elegant.
Of course, looks aren't everything. The next iPhone will allegedly come loaded with the super-fast A5 processor, which currently powers the iPad 2. It's also supposed to have a far better camera, and will surely run all the impressive features of the upcoming iOS 5 operating system better than any other device in Apple's lineup.
These predictable upgrades are not nearly enough, however, for me to lay down the hundreds of dollars it will certainly cost to snag the next iPhone, just as I wouldn't spend the money on a device that was improved on the outside, but filled with inferior components.
Now that I've got all that bickering out of my system, I must say that I highly doubt the iPhone 5 (or iPhone 4S, or whatever other imaginary name we're calling it these days) will look anything like the handset in the picture. Why? First, because there is absolutely no evidence to suggest that this is anywhere close to the design of the next iPhone. Yes, it reportedly fits the new cases that have been popping up. But so what? Maybe those cases were made for this crappy knockoff. And second, because of all the design flaws I've already listed above. I can't image Apple, which puts cutting edge design ahead of almost everything else, would release such a misshapen product.
In fact, the only presumption that makes this leak plausible is that, because the next iPhone is (or will be) produced in China, this Chinese counterfeit has the possibility of being based off of the real iPhone 5.
"Given that the iPhone 5 is probably being churned out of the factories as we speak—either in limited production runs or ramping up—I wouldn't be surprised if someone got a prototype and sold it to some enterprising pirate company," writes Gizmodo's Jesus Diaz about the "iPhoney."
So, at best, the device in these pictures is merely a replica, a poor recreation. The almost imperceptible tweaks and details that Apple's superior designers consistently manage to include in their products were lost in translation somewhere along the dark alley where these rip-offs are produced.
Of course, Diaz's conjecture is perfectly credible in the Apple rumor mill — indeed, it is the Apple rumor mill. We're all part of it, me and you included, because we love to imagine what Apple might have in store for us. Apple sells dreams, remember, not just gadgets. Whoever dreamed up this spurious design, however, apparently wasn't trying particularly hard.
Come fall, when many believe Apple will unveil the fifth-generation iPhone, I predict that Apple will release something just as impressively stylish as it always has, a device you can't take your eyes off of and never want to set down. Perhaps some of you think this design matches that description perfectly. But I, for one, expect something better.
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Washington County father accused of abusing baby
A Washington County man accused of fracturing his newborn daughter's arm has been charged.
Jesse Byers was charged last week with physical abuse of a child -- intentionally causing bodily harm.
According to the criminal complaint, the baby was taken to the emergency room on Nov. 16 because they believed she had an injury to her left arm.
Tests revealed the baby had a left arm fracture and possible rib fractures.
The complaint said that early in the morning on Nov. 15, Byers was trying to swaddle the infant when he forcefully drove the baby's left arm into the bed in a downward motíon. He said he then "tilted his right hand upward towards the ceiling, which was on the baby's left arm, and that his index finger was halfway up the girl's arm, and that he rotated his hand upward, at which time he heard a "pop" coming from the baby's left arm."
Investigators said Byers initially told them the baby's arm got caught in a blanket.
Byers has been ordered to have no contact with the baby and is scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 2 for a preliminary hearing.
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Say, Who Are The People...?
My friends rarely agree with me.
Because of this 'seeing dead-ringer-people', my town sometimes seem largely populated by reluctant celebrities. I see them all the time and it's just a little bit strange.
Here are a few of the people in my neighbourhood:
Buzz Lightyear
I didn't see this one until someone pointed it out to me and then it was *so* true... God.
Johnny Cabs (from the movie Total Recall)
This is not a likeness. The guy in my town really is Johnny Cabs - he's got to be.
Ron Jeremy
No I don't know who he is either. You back me up and I'll back you up.
Margaret Thatcher's Spitting Image Puppet
Poor old lady, she shouldn't have ended up looking like this... I want to offer to carry her bag but I'm laughing too hard.
Michael Flatley
Oh no, wait, it really is Michael Flatley that I see. He regularly visits Westport and joins Matt Molloy in a flute-playing session in Matt's fine pub. He's a great ambassador for Irish Culture but am I the only one who is reminded of Bugs Bunny whenever he dances?
I know this would be infinitely more fun if I had some actual pictures of my local look-alikes but have you any idea how much trouble I'm in around here already?
Do you see any celebrity looky-likeys moving through your community? I'd really like to know. Who are they?
The people that you meet when you're walking down the street...
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- Catherine @ Sharp Words said...
My secondary school headmistress, back in the 80s, looked like (the real) Margaret Thatcher. Thankfully she was much nicer.
And I used to go to college with a lad who looked like the one who shouts 'Get off my train!' in Ghost (sorry, can't remember the actor's name though he's pretty well-known).
But I don't have any local celebrity look-a-likes. Obviously.
- 9 January 2009 at 19:12
- Kat Mortensen said...
I don't really see anyone locally who looks like a celebrity, but I am forever saying (while I'm watching T.V., "He looks like so-and-so crossed with so-and-so" which usually gets my husband really laughing.
In the documentary, "The Human Face", John Cleese stressed that it is the highly intelligent people who can look at someone, put the data through their brain's computer and come up with someone else. So, you see, you are really a clever fellow!
- 9 January 2009 at 20:26
I'm quite bad at that kind of a game. There's another game where sopmeone is to name a movie, and you have to name an actor or actress in that movie, then the next person has to name another movie that person was in and the next person after that has to name a different actress or actor in that movie... and so on. I'm usually pretty bad with that too.
I know celebrities when I see them, but I may not know their names. That being said, My one neighbour looks just like Danny Devito but with hair and a big bushy mushtache. Though nowhere near as adorable or talented (did I just say that?)
- 9 January 2009 at 20:36
- Susan at Stony River said...
I am SO tempted to follow up with a blog post titled "Which of these things are not..." etc. Sesame Street in my head now!
Remember Sam the Eagle from the Muppets? We've got him. And the fellow on Father Ted with the "I Shot JR" t-shirt---we've got him too.
Now you're going to think I live in OBE country (One Big Eyebrow) and I guess to some extent I do...
- 9 January 2009 at 20:43
- Jena Isle said...
There's someone here who looks exactly like Will Smith...lol...-my son...he he he..Oftentimes, his wife calls him will..lol...
- 10 January 2009 at 02:05
You know -- it's kind of eerie the way our minds are working right now.... I had a thought going for a story line for a book that is about a look-alike perpetrating crimes in the name of the famous person he/she looks like and making it this sinister big news thing -- but then again, I'm so into paranoia.
- 10 January 2009 at 03:27
Lolz.. taht's too funny dude. I also feel like that quite a many times. Nice self-observation there :)
- 10 January 2009 at 05:32
- Unknown said...
That Ron Jeremy is a double for a Belgian travel agent, who elected for many years to stay at my sister's every time he went to Torquay, rather than go to a hotel.
- 10 January 2009 at 11:45
- Ken Armstrong said...
Catherine: That's a good one (the guy on the train). I saw Ghost on first release in Bangkok of all places - everybody was laughing at different things to me. I think that guy was in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest too - he's got a great face... although I wouldn't like ot have it. :)
Poetikat: Clever, moi? Oh go on... (after Danny Kaye 'Ugly Duckling) :)
Reggie: I'd like that game, I think I'd do all right. What happens when your neighbour finds your blog. Hello neighbour... welcome.
Susan: The guy on Father Ted with the I shot JR is a young Pat Shortt. We *should* post a bit on Sesame Street, I love Sesame Street!
Jena: Your son looks like Wil Smith! That's pretty cool.
Margaret: It is weird - sometimes I'll see people over and over before it finally clicks who they look like and then it's a Road to Damascus thing (Hey, dude, you look like Jesus!) and I long to tell them all about it. I see Ron Jeremy every day and he looks so sad - I wonder would it cheer him up if I told him what I thought?
Darsan: Thanks.
Jakill: Now I've got this Ron Goes to Fawlty Towers scenario running through my head... :)
- 10 January 2009 at 13:03
- Canucklehead said...
I actually pinned Flatley as a 'flute-player'. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
- 10 January 2009 at 15:19
- Jim Murdoch said...
I have a standard expression for anyone I see who looks like some famous person: e.g."Brad Pitt's a poor man's Robert Redford." or "Michael Jackson's a poor man's Elizabeth Taylor." You get the idea.
If you have a few minutes to waste you might like to have a look here. I'd start with 'Gillian Anderson'.
- 10 January 2009 at 15:52
- Ken Armstrong said...
Canucklehead: I figured someone would do the 'flute' gag. Never guessed it would be you though... well... :) Matt Molloy is a powerhouse of Flute playing - a member of The Chieftains - Micheal isn't in his galaxy.
Excellent link fun, Jim, I love Maria Sharapova looking over her council house wall. :)
- 10 January 2009 at 16:14
- hope said...
There's a guy in another Recreation Dept. I see at meetings who is the twin to Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
One of my senior citizens, who's now passed on, was at least a close cousin in looks and sound to James Earl Jones.
I use to joke that God made about 25 "models" of male and female, which is why we see so many people who look familiar. :)
- 10 January 2009 at 17:17
- Laura Brown said...
It's all genetics and you can be famous and still be tied to your family genes. I like to hear that I have my Aunt Emma's laugh. Or I have my Aunt Alice's something else. It keeps them around in some little way though all of them have been dead for years now. I miss my Grandma cause now no one is left to tell me about Emma's laugh.
Anyway, I was going to say that we did all come from a much smaller population. It shouldn't be a surprise that we can share a face with someone we aren't directly related to.
- 11 January 2009 at 22:03
- K. said...
I saw someone yesterday who would be the spitting image of David Halberstam, were David still with us. Also, there used to be a woman at my gym who looked suspiciously like Barbie.
- 12 January 2009 at 00:21
- Ken Armstrong said...
Hope: I think there may be more that 25... but not too many more. :)
Laura: I'll have to find you that Harlan Ellison story about the 'laugh'. I don't think this 'famous people thing of mine is so much about the few genetic types we have in the world, I think it's more about me trying to find common ground with people and my habit of inspecting everyone I see (which was *very* tiring when I used to live in London.
K: Barbie is at your Gym? She's quite ripped already! :)
- 12 January 2009 at 11:49
- Matthew S. Urdan said...
Strange, I was watching the Golden Globes last night and could have sworn that was you up on stage collecting an award instead of Colin Farrell.
- 12 January 2009 at 13:55
- Reese said...
That's Ron Jeremy???????
- 12 January 2009 at 18:06
- Reese said...
A few seasons ago on American Idol, Taylor Hicks was a contestant. He was the guy that sang soul....Where is he now??
Anyway, EVERYBODY thought my husband looked JUST like him. I don't see it, personally. For one thing, my husband is 6 1/2 feet tall and weighs 250 lbs. (I'd convert that to metric for you, but I'm the lost generation!)
- 12 January 2009 at 18:11
- Ken Armstrong said...
Matt: well spotted! Colin asked me to pick it up for him. I had a touch of a head cold but I couldn't let him down.
Reese: You should see the version of him in my town! :)
Reeese: "six foot six he stood on the ground, he weighed two hundred and thirty five pounds..." :)
- 12 January 2009 at 18:54
- K. said...
Anyone at my gym who looks like Barbie didn't come by it naturally.
- 12 January 2009 at 19:05


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I find the "New Dutch School" convincing, and I would like to switch to it. But I am worried that then I will be seen as a maverick and will not be able to get a position in an orchestra.
The concern about being seen as a maverick is certainly not without foundation. As soon as one does anything differently from the majority, certain reservations or even resentments must be reckoned with. Even the pupils of Friedrich Warnecke experienced opposition, but were then able to obtain first-class orchestra positions. What it really important is to realise your own musical conception; this is independent of technique. In any case the majority/minority principle only applies within the double bass group, which is a relatively small part of the string section. In relation to the strings taken as a whole, it is double bass players who play traditionally, using a light bow and the three-finger technique who form the exception. It is not unusual for this to lead to misunderstandings in everyday life in the orchestra, because conductors, violinists, viola players and cellists are often not aware of the specific problems of double bass players. In auditions, it is more and more the tendency to make the same demands of double bass players as are made of the other string players. This has the consequence that vacant positions, particularly principal positions, sometimes remain unfilled for years because frequently none of the applicants is able to fulfil expectations.I will never manage to stretch my hand out to the three semitones. How is this supposed to work?
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Depending on circumstances (talent, industriousness, previous experience etc.) it is possible to play pieces newly learned with it after three to six months. It takes longer to convert the old repertoire, because, as is well known, old habits die hard. It can take one or two years until the old automatisms are replaced by new ones.I have relatively small hands. Will I be able to use the four-finger technique with them?
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It is used. Similarly to cello technique, there are different positions: the basic position, the close position and the extended position.I have been using the heavy bow for three months, but I still cannot create a spiccato. What am I doing wrong?
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Starting August 18th, we changed the way Strava automatically names your activities. Previously, when uploading from a device (via the Strava website or via a syncing program) your activities would be titled "mm/dd/yyyy City, State" or "dd/mm/yyy Town, Region, Country". Now, your activities will follow the same naming convention as the Strava App. For example, "Morning Ride", "Afternoon Run", "Evening Run".
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Taylor Swift's new video for her song 22 was released today on GMA. I love it. And it's exactly what I was saying about Taylor re: Selena Gomez's post-Bieber fun life with her girls. This is the version of Taylor Swift I wish we could have more of -- surrounded by friends, silly dancing, making memories that don't necessarily have to include boys...
But is it really like this when the cameras come off? For her, I hope so, I really do.
In other Swift news -- they found a box of discarded unopened fan letters for her in a dumpster, and the implication, of course, is that she doesn't read her fan-mail. An obvious f-ck up by her management, or whoever is paid by her management to manage these situations, and their excuse was that it was a mistake and that those letters were tossed out in error with the recycling...which...you know... it's kinda like Santa Claus, right? At a certain point, you stop believing that your favourite celebrity actually reads the card you made for her, the one you worked on for two weeks, with special glitter glue and a fresh set of markers.
Do you remember when you stopped believing in Santa Claus?
Is this still a parenting concern?
At what age should I tell my child that Santa Claus doesn't exist? I don't want little Jimmy to hear about it shockingly at school.
Similarly, at what age should you tell your child that pop stars don't read fan-mail?
Attached -- Swift in rehearsal earlier this week for her upcoming tour.


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